Neurology of the arts : painting, music, literature /

This book is the first attempt to provide a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, music and literature. The introduction deals with the problems of creativity and which parts of the brain are involved. Then an overview of art presents multiple facets, such as anato...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rose, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Imperial College Press, 2004.
Temas:
Medicine in art.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine.
Music.
Neurology.
Medicine in the Arts
Medicine in Literature
Music
Neurology
Médecine dans l'art.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Littérature et médecine.
Musique.
Neurologie.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL > Neurology.
Arts
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction ; The cerebral localization of creativity / George K. York
  • Neural concept formation and art : Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner / Semir Zeki
  • Art ; The neurology of art : an overview / F. Clifford Rose
  • Galen and the artful symmetry of the brain / Julius Rocca
  • Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical art and the origin of modern neurology / David A. Steinberg
  • The art of Sir Charles Bell / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
  • Normal and pathological gait as inspiration for the artist / Geneviève Aubert
  • Epilepsy in pictorial art / Bernt A. Engelsen
  • Music ; Brain mapping in musicians / Michael E. Charness & Gottfried Schlaug
  • The cerebral localisation of musical perception and musical memory / H. Platel, F. Eustache & J.-C. Baron
  • Musical instruments as metaphors in brain science : From René Descartes to John Hughlings Jackson / C.U.M. Smith
  • The music of madness : Franklin's armonica and the vulnerable nervous system / Stanley Finger & David A. Gallo
  • The Mozart effect / John R. Hughes & John J. Fino
  • The amusias / Jason Warren
  • Music and the brain : a musicologist's viewpoint / Paul Robertson
  • The convulsionary Samuel Johnson and the miaowing of Mozart / Milo Keynes
  • Literature ; The influence of Shakespeare on Charcot's neurological teaching / Christopher G. Goetz
  • Epilepsy in literature : writers' experiences and their reflection in literary works / Peter Wolf
  • The aetiology of Dostoyevsky's epilepsy / Halfdan Kierulf
  • Neurology and Sherlock Holmes / E. Wayne Massey
  • James Joyce in a clinical context / J.B. Lyons
  • Neurology in the Nordic sagas / Ragnar Stien
  • The poetry of Henry Head / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
  • Silas Marner, George Eliot and catalepsy / F. Clifford Rose.

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